Meeting in the Raccoon Mountain Room of the UTC University Center
Luncheon and Dinner in the Chickamauga Room (2nd Floor)
8:30-9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast (Raccoon Mountain Room)
9:00-9:15 a.m. Opening Remarks from conveners
and university officials
9:15-10:45 a.m. "Murder in the News:
The Courant from the Revolution to Reconstruction"
Robert Dardenne, University
of South Florida at St. Petersburg
"Supporting a Northerner
in Pre-Secession Mississippi: The Story of James M. Swords and his Vicksburg
Citizen"
Nancy Dupont, Loyola University-New
Orleans
"Newspaper Coverage
of the Emancipation Proclamation"
Giovanna Dell'Orto and Hazel
Dicken-Garcia, University of Minnesota
10:45-11:00 a.m. Refreshments
11:00-12:00 "Frederick
Jackson Turner Revisited: The Frontier Character of the Nineteenth-Century
Black Press"
Bernell E. Tripp, University
of Florida
"'Illustrated
Afro-American Journalism': Political Cartooning in the Indianapolis Freeman,
1888-1893"
Aleen J. Ratzlaff, University
of Florida
12:00-1:30 p.m. Luncheon in the Chickamauga Room, University
Center
"Just the Facts:
The Past, Present and Prospects of Journalistic 'Objectivity'"
David T. Z. Mindich, Saint Michael's
College
1:30-3:00 p.m. Special Program:
Fiction and History: Does Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain Accurately
Reflect Life During the Civil War?
"Private Inman's Civil War"
Roy Morris Jr., founding editor, America's Civil War
"Savage Satori: Fact and Fiction in Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain"
Paul Ashdown, University
of Tennessee at Knoxville
Panelist: James Ogden, Chief
Historian, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park
Discussant: Lloyd Chiasson,
Nicholls State University
Moderator: David B. Sachsman,
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
3:00-3:15 p.m. Refreshments
3:15-5:00 p.m. "'Establish
a Southern Rights Press. . . At Once': The Battle for the Alabama Beacon,
1860-1861"
Wes Borucki, University of Alabama
"Independent
or Compromised? Civil War Correspondent Sylvanus Cadwallader"
William Huntzicker, Bemidji
State University
"The Relationships
Among Lincoln, Bennett and Greeley During the Civil War"
Gene Murray, Grambling State
"The Jewish Press during the Civil War 1861-1865"
Mel Young, author, Last Order of the Lost Cause
6:00-8:00 p.m. Dinner in the Chickamauga Room
"The Early Journalism
of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah"
Barbara Straus Reed, Rutgers
University
"Journal of a Georgia
Girl: The Tale of Frances Andrews"
S. Kittrell Rushing, Univ. of
Tennessee Chattanooga
8:30-9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast (Raccoon Mountain Room)
9:00-10:30 a.m. "Government
Printing in Frontier Alabama: 1826-1846"
Catharine Bomhold, University of Alabama
"The Press and Two
Presidents: Martin Van Buren and Calvin Coolidge"
John J. Breslin, Minnesota
"Press Coverage
of President Garfield's Assassin"
Roger Van Ommeren, Mississippi
University for Women and
Don Sneed, Florida International University
10:30-6:00 p.m. Discussion continues while the group visits Chattanooga's
historic Civil War sites
(includes lunch and dinner)
Symposium sponsored by the West Chair of Excellence and the UTC Department
of Communication.
All paper sessions are free and open to the public.